TOPSHOTS Afghan man peer through broken window panes following a suicide attack in Ghazni on September 4, 2014. A Taliban attack on a government compound in Afghanistan on September 4 killed 13 security personnel and left at least 60 other people wounded when a truck bomb triggered hours of fighting, officials said. About 20 insurgents armed with machine guns and grenade launchers were also killed during the assault on the intelligence agency base in Ghazni province, one of the most volatile regions of Afghanistan. AFP PHOTO/Rahmatullah AlizadahRahmatullah Alizadah/AFP/Getty Images

- At least 14 Afghans, 12 of them security personnel, were killed Thursday in an attack in the southeastern city of Ghazni, Afghan officials said.

For the second time in less than a week, insurgents struck at a provincial headquarters of the National Directorate of Security, Afghanistan's domestic intelligence service, detonating a bomb in a vehicle at the facility's gates and following up with a ground assault by suicide attackers.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in a text message sent to media.

According to Ghazni province's deputy governor, Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, 15 insurgents carried out the assault on the headquarters as well as on neighboring buildings, which housed a unit of the intelligence service's Quick Reaction Force and other government institutions.

An official with the Quick Reaction Force said eight of its personnel were killed and 10 others wounded. The deputy police chief, Asadullah Insafi, said four police officers and two civilians were killed, with 136 officers and civilians wounded.

The deputy governor said 13 of the 15 Taliban attackers were killed and one was captured. It was unclear what had happened to the 15th attacker.